He told FORBES that are no restrictions on how Breakthrough Prize winners spend their money and that past winners will be asked to a join a committee to award future prizes.

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Mr Blair's invitation to the Liberal Democrats to join a cabinet committee considering constitutional changes is another step towards a more consensual style of government.

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Peter Hammond, former leader of the Labour group, resigned in November after Labour's governing body, the National Executive Committee, overruled a decision by party councillors to join the cabinet.

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To harness a much wider range of expertise and experience from outside government and help us plan for the future we are inviting business, academics, community organisations and military and security experts from outside government to join a new National Security Forum that will advise the recently constituted National Security Committee.

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The ten-seat board, dominated in the post-Enron age by eight independent directors, has appointed a four-member search committee--without inviting Andreas to join it.

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He praised the recent move to make committees more independent by allowing all MPs to elect committee chairs in a secret ballot and enabling MPs from each party to decide who among them should join committees.

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